Manh-Kien Tran is a Chemical Engineering PhD student at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. ‘I’ve always called this era the renaissance of energy innovation,’ he believes. And to prove this, his study direction is a cloud-based battery management system for lithium technology.
Tran Sees Lithium Batteries as New Type of Fuel Tank
Lithium batteries became so common in household electronics, and electric cars the Chemical Engineering PhD student sees them as a ‘new type of fuel tank’. However, they do require integration with battery management systems to perform at their optimum.
‘That’s because a battery management system is the brain of the battery’, Tran explains. ‘First, it controls and optimizes the way the battery charges and discharges, and then ensures system safety during operation.’ But today’s offerings are simply not good enough, given the amount of memory a battery can hold.
‘But that’s where the cloud comes in,’ he explains on the University of Waterloo website. ‘Because using a cloud platform for battery management will allow us to have a one-size-fits-all system with better battery algorithms. Moreover, this will allow us to store seemingly endless amounts of battery data.’
A Study for a Cloud-Based Battery Management System
Manh-Kien Tran published a joint paper on the topic on the MDPI platform on February 18, 2022. There, the point of departure is lithium batteries are an excellent solution for energy storage. However, their low computational capability is holding them back from making an optimum contribution to solving climate change.
The study paper, see link below first reviews the state of cloud-based battery management systems, and then provides insights into their performance. The authors hope their work contributes to better lithium battery performance in future, and leads to mass adoption of renewable energy.
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